Anasuya Sarabhai (original) (raw)

Anasuya or Anusyabehn Sarabhai (11 November 1885 – 1 November 1972) was a pioneer of the women’s labour movement in India. She founded the Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association (Majdoor Mahajan Sangh), India's oldest union of textile workers, in 1920 and Kanyagruha, in 1927 to educate girls of the mills..She was also a beloved friend and pupil of Mahatma Gandhi who considered her "Pujya"("Revered"), and it was Gandhi who made her lifelong president of Majdoor Mahajan Sangh. She was the close associate of Gandhi during his initial struggle of the Indian Independence Movement and helped him establish his ashram at Sabarmati.